The Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) version 1.4 has been released. LLVM is a source-language agnostic toolkit for building static and dynamic compilers, optimizers, linkers, jit compilers and interpreted virtual machines. This release provides faster compile times, better code quality, a new PowerPC JIT, initial support for building with Visual C++ 7.1, and many many bug fixes and other improvements. Visit the home page where you can learn all the details. LLVM is funded by the National Science Foundation, MARCO/DARPA, and supported by UIUC's Computer Science department and developers world-wide.